The Story of a House

On November 8, 1914, John Glessner made the following entry in his wife’s journal about their visit to the Lake Forest home of Cyrus Mc...

The long awaited move of the landmark Harriet F. Rees house at 2110 S. Prairie Avenue was completed on November 11 and 12, 2014.  A lar...

Courtesy www.oakpark.com Jeanette Fields, who served as the first Executive Director of Glessner House from 1970 to 1976, passed away...

The Elbridge G. Keith house at 1900 S. Prairie Avenue is one of just seven surviving houses on the “sunny street that held the sifted f...

Exactly 125 years ago, Frances Glessner made the following entry in her journal: “October 29, 1889 – Mrs. and Elizabeth Sprague cal...